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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939, Detroit, United States), aged 87, is an American filmmaker (born 1939). Coppola is best known for Tetro, Supernova and Jack. Coppola's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Picture.

Francis Ford Coppola’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Francis in the U.S.?

#420

US rank in 2025

~320,322

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Francis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

33 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Crimson · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Francis, according to the stars

Core essence

Francis leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Francis is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Francis wants to be loved

Francis wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Francis, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Francis creates

How Francis makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Francis builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Francis is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Francis is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Francis does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Francis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Francis sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Francis

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Francis

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Francis

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Francis

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Francis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Francis

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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Francis Ford Coppola in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Francis Ford Coppola's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 7, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 33

Lifts the room by example.

Francis Ford Coppola's birth date, April 7, 1939, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.

What stands out in Francis’s chart

Francis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Francis Ford Coppola, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.2° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 6.5° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.6° orbSun in Aries · 16°59′16°Moon in Sagittarius · 1°45′Mercury in Aries · 9°14′ · retrogradeVenus in Pisces · 8°41′Mars in Capricorn · 9°27′Jupiter in Pisces · 22°42′22°Saturn in Aries · 20°30′20°Uranus in Taurus · 16°03′16°Neptune in Virgo · 21°18′ · retrograde21°Pluto in Cancer · 29°14′ · retrograde29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Francis’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Francis’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.5° orb

    Francis’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 3.9° orb

    Francis’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Francis’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineUranus6.4° to 6.8° orb

    Francis’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° to 6.6° orb

    Francis’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.7° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 2.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.9° to 16.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Francis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironCancer 4°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Francis is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • CeresGemini 5°54′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Francis feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosPisces 25°50′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Francis is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaCapricorn 9°54′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Francis is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Francis at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.2°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.8°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Francis’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mercury2 pts

    disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Francis is read as acting first and reflecting after.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Francis’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Francis Ford Coppola, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Francis’s cards

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The Devil

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The Evergreen Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Earth

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Wood

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Francis Ford Coppola, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Francis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56094, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Francis Ford Coppola at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Quick answers about Francis Ford Coppola’s chart

How old is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is 87 years old, born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is an Aries: born April 7, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 7, 1939 birth.
What time was Francis Ford Coppola born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
How tall is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the April 7, 1939 birth date.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 7, 1939 birth date.
Where is Francis Ford Coppola's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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